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It's looking more like velvet from what I can see.
Any bahavioral symptoms? Scratching, flashing, swimming into the flow of a powerhead?
https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/the-difference-between-ich-velvet.315957/
No behavioral symptoms, swimming around but somewhat slowly. Wow I can’t believe this. I’m going to lose everything.
Got the male bellus out, did a FW dip then put him in QT and followed directions to get therapeutic level of copper but he has been in a cave since adding him breathing heavily and not swimming, I don't expect to him to last through the night. I could not for the life of me catch the other fish. It will die in the tank I suppose. The rest of my fish I suppose are dead too. I cannot drain 200 gallons of water and move out 175 lbs of rock. Wow, WHY DID I USE A VENDOR I DON'T NORMALLY USE?! EVERYTHING WAS GOING SO WELL NOW I AM GOING TO LOSE EVERYTHING. I seriously hate this hobby after only 6 months. I have to watch all my fish die one by one, this is excruciating.
The Velvet parasites increase in number almost exponentially with each generation overwhelming the fish's immune system.What are the chances fish can survive once velvet is in the tank?
I just don't have the time to do all this, I know it sounds crazy but I am a father of two, I work 40 hours a week and so does my wife and my kids are 3 and less than 2. They won't let me go to the bathroom alone let alone drain a tank and disassemble rock structures. What are the chances fish can survive once velvet is in the tank?
As you create as much of a ‘low tide’ as you can by using as many pails / containers / buckets as you can to siphon your water out into, don’t overlook the fact that your rockwork might start to work to your advantage. Many passageways will become dead-ends; others can start to be block by nets, sheets of plastic or pieces of glass—anything you can use as dividers to cut off escape routes for your fish. I have used gallon jugs (weighted with water) to cut off escape routes for the fish. My point is, what seems like a virtual impossibility (netting fish with rocks in the tank) when the water is high, can become vastly easier with only 3, 6, even 8 inches of water left.